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... Mount Morgan was like many famous pyritic ore bodies and so they did not watch for in- creasing signs of copper as the workings went down . Jack was thirty - nine when he first walked the slopes of Mount Morgan . A scar on his shoulder ...
... Mount Morgan was like many famous pyritic ore bodies and so they did not watch for in- creasing signs of copper as the workings went down . Jack was thirty - nine when he first walked the slopes of Mount Morgan . A scar on his shoulder ...
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... Mount Lyell copper mine in Tasmania had become famous and it resembled Morgan - a pyritic deposit strong in gold at the surface and strong in copper at depth . Dr Jack wrote his fourth report on Mount Morgan in 1898 and abandoned his ...
... Mount Lyell copper mine in Tasmania had become famous and it resembled Morgan - a pyritic deposit strong in gold at the surface and strong in copper at depth . Dr Jack wrote his fourth report on Mount Morgan in 1898 and abandoned his ...
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... Mount Morgan was halved . The company's shares were slipping . By the end of 1903 he had spent some £ 150,000 in drilling for oil in Persia , and had mortgaged tens of thousands of his shares to secure an overdraft from London banks ...
... Mount Morgan was halved . The company's shares were slipping . By the end of 1903 he had spent some £ 150,000 in drilling for oil in Persia , and had mortgaged tens of thousands of his shares to secure an overdraft from London banks ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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